I. Nepal’s existing abortion law, in permitting abortion during the first trimester without restriction as to reason or need for spousal consent, respects women’s basic human rights and should be reaffirmed.The current law on abortion as provided in the Eleventh Amendment of the Muluki Ain respects rights and principles recognized by the Nepalese Supreme Court […]
What is FGM? Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the collective name given to a number of cultural practices that involve the partial or total cutting of female genitals. FGM can be performed as early as infancy and as late as age thirty. However, most commonly, girls experience FGM between four and twelve years of age. […]
Nepal’s punitive approach to abortion has threatened women’s lives and health, reinforced entrenched gender discrimination, and interfered with women’s decision-making on a matter with immense personal implications. Those who have been arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned on abortion-related offenses have been subjected to violations of their basic rights as criminal defendants and prisoners. Abuses include systematic […]
Filing date: April 2004 Country/Region: , Nepal Plaintiff(s): Achyut Prasad Kharel Center Attorney(s): , Melissa Upreti Partners: Forum for Women, Law, and Development (FLWD) Summary: On August 4, Nepal’s Supreme Court dismissed a case that had aimed to overturn the country’s abortion law, which allows abortion upon request up to 12 weeks. The law was […]
In May 2007, The Center for Reproductive Rights and Yale University’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic submitted a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court of Nicaragua. Country/Region: , Nicaragua/LAC Center Attorney(s): , Lilian Sepúlveda and Alejandra Cardenas Partners: Ipas Central America and the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) Summary: , Filed […]
International human rights law protects the rights of women to have access to voluntary sterilization services free of coercion, discrimination, and violence. In April 2004, the Center prepared a legal memorandum on the illegality of coercive sterilization under international human rights law, and an analysis of possible remedial measures to address such abuses using comparative […]
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